Sippin'

[Mykidsdad]

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[ray1970]

So I got the wife hooked on these White Claw Seltzer things ... gotta admit after mowing the lawn they're pretty darn good.

Thanks for sharing. Makes me feel much better about keeping my man card by drinking my wife?s beer. We might have to evaluate your actions and how that might impact your man card though.

[Justin]

Since we're all trapped at home, I decided to try something I've wanted to do for awhile.

I fat washed some whisky.

Basically, I took a bottle of cheap whisky (Seagrams 7) threw it and a few tablespoons full of bacon fat into the crockpot on low for a couple of hours, stirring occasionally. Then let it come up to room temperature, strained it through a coffee filter and tossed it in the freezer.

The result is a whisky with a fairly prominent bacon undertone. It makes a tasty, but fairly gimmicky Old Fashioned.

Evidently, you can use this process with various kinds of fats and liquors; e.g. you could use this as the basis for a hot buttered rum.

I doubt I'd ever use this process on top shelf or even mid-shelf hooch, but I have to say I was overall quite pleased with the result.

[ray1970]

So now you can clog your heart and your liver at the same time?

[Justin]

Basically.

In all actuality, I'm not sure how much of the fat stays dissolved in the liquor. Once you let it sit, the fat congeals on the surface, kind of like what you get when you make chicken stock. After skimming it off and running it through a filter, I would imagine that there's a chance that some of the fat sticks around, but not much.

The nice thing is that it gives you that smokey bacon-y flavor without making it feel like the inside of your mouth is coated in a layer of grease.

[ray1970]

So, next pandemic/quarantine we have, while everyone else is storming the grocery store to hoard food and toilet paper, I?m heading straight to the liquor store and getting a keg.

[Mykidsdad]

So, next pandemic/quarantine we have, while everyone else is storming the grocery store to hoard food and toilet paper, I?m heading straight to the liquor store and getting a keg.

Of.........?


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[ray1970]

Beer. What else would I get in a keg?


(Depends what I can get. 90 Shilling or something similar.)

[Mykidsdad]

No shit....that was assumed.

Smaller volume top quality kegs are available from high end brewers.

Could be a great new thread....

One beer to last you through a pandemic...Choose!


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[ray1970]

While I enjoy branching out and trying different stuff, if nothing else sounds appealing (or more likely they are out of whatever it was that I wanted to try) I really enjoy 90 Schilling.

I suppose if I was stuck with drinking only one beer during a pandemic it would be 90 Shilling.

There are some local places that have some stuff I like a lot also. I guess I could just stock up on growlers.